Dying To Get Here: A Story of Coming to America

by Matt Lawrence, Rusty Fischer (Editor), Van Hare, Thomas (Illustrator)

Dying to Get Here is set in a small barrio near Havana, Cuba in 1994. Paco Robaina, the son of a tobacco plantation owner in the 50s, was raised in a privileged lifestyle but, like many fellow Cubans, is now at his wit’s end trying to provide for his family. Since the overthrow of the government by Fidel Castro in 1959, he has been helpless in preventing his own demise. Reduced to living on government rations, and occasional U.S. dollars earned by his lovely daughter Maslinda, he often sits on the steps in front of his four room concrete hovel on a dusty, pot-holed street. His soul hounds him to find a better way of life for his family and he reluctantly makes the decision to make an attempt at a passage to freedom….,

246 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 13, 2010